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October 2000

Why Doesn't the Grapevine Publish Poetry?

Adapted from "The AA Grapevine Workbook

The Grapevine is not a magazine of the arts; it is a magazine of experience, and poetry would not be appropriate. Every magazine establishes certain editorial policies. The six "ink-stained wretches" who founded the magazine made a decision not to publish poetry in the Grapevine, and no group of editors since then has seen a reason to change that policy. Most poetry is written from an intensely personal experience, and the editors have always chosen to publish articles that share experiences more readers can identify with. Currently, so many good manuscripts are received, sharing the kind of experience most often heard in AA meetings, that to publish poetry would mean turning down even more good prose articles--and too many must be turned down in any case.

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